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Recent advances in neural TTS have led to models that can produce high-quality synthetic speech. However, these models typically require large amounts of training data, which can make it costly to produce a new voice with the desired…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Marcel de Korte , Jaebok Kim , Esther Klabbers

Accent conversion aims to convert the accent of a source speech to a target accent, meanwhile preserving the speaker's identity. This paper introduces a novel non-autoregressive framework for accent conversion that learns accent-agnostic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xi Chen , Jiakun Pei , Liumeng Xue , Mingyang Zhang

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) models can synthesize natural human speech when trained on large amounts of transcribed speech. However, collecting such large-scale transcribed data is expensive. This paper proposes an unsupervised pre-training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Seongyeon Park , Myungseo Song , Bohyung Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh

Obtaining high-quality speaker embeddings in multi-speaker conditions is crucial for many applications. A recently proposed guided speaker embedding framework, which utilizes speech activities of target and non-target speakers as clues,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Shota Horiguchi , Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Atsushi Ando , Naohiro Tawara

Multi-speaker TTS has to learn both linguistic embedding and text embedding to generate speech of desired linguistic content in desired voice. However, it is unclear which characteristic of speech results from speaker and which part from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Sunghee Jung , Hoirin Kim

In this work, we propose a zero-shot voice conversion method using speech representations trained with self-supervised learning. First, we develop a multi-task model to decompose a speech utterance into features such as linguistic content,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Shehzeen Hussain , Paarth Neekhara , Jocelyn Huang , Jason Li , Boris Ginsburg

Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), driven by language models, diffusion models and masked generation, have achieved impressive naturalness in speech synthesis. Nevertheless, stability and fidelity remain key challenges,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Hualei Wang , Na Li , Chuke Wang , Shu Wu , Zhifeng Li , Dong Yu

We propose a novel two-stage text-to-speech (TTS) framework with two types of discrete tokens, i.e., semantic and acoustic tokens, for high-fidelity speech synthesis. It features two core components: the Interpreting module, which processes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Joun Yeop Lee , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Ji-Hyun Lee , Hoon-Young Cho , Nam Soo Kim

Target-speaker speech recognition aims to recognize target-speaker speech from noisy environments with background noise and interfering speakers. This work presents a joint framework that combines time-domain target-speaker speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Jiatong Shi , Chunlei Zhang , Chao Weng , Shinji Watanabe , Meng Yu , Dong Yu

Recent speech synthesis systems based on sampling from autoregressive neural networks models can generate speech almost undistinguishable from human recordings. However, these models require large amounts of data. This paper shows that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Javier Latorre , Jakub Lachowicz , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Thomas Merritt , Thomas Drugman , Srikanth Ronanki , Klimkov Viacheslav

We introduce SupertonicTTS, a novel text-to-speech (TTS) system designed for efficient and streamlined speech synthesis. SupertonicTTS comprises three components: a speech autoencoder for continuous latent representation, a text-to-latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Hyeongju Kim , Jinhyeok Yang , Yechan Yu , Seunghun Ji , Jacob Morton , Frederik Bous , Joon Byun , Juheon Lee

Recently, sequence-to-sequence (seq-to-seq) models have been successfully applied in text-to-speech (TTS) to synthesize speech for single-language text. To synthesize speech for multiple languages usually requires multi-lingual speech from…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Haitong Zhang , Yue Lin

Incorporating cross-speaker style transfer in text-to-speech (TTS) models is challenging due to the need to disentangle speaker and style information in audio. In low-resource expressive data scenarios, voice conversion (VC) can generate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Lucas H. Ueda , Leonardo B. de M. M. Marques , Flávio O. Simões , Mário U. Neto , Fernando Runstein , Bianca Dal Bó , Paula D. P. Costa

Voice cloning is a prominent feature in personalized speech interfaces. A neural vocal cloning system can mimic someone's voice using just a few audio samples. Both speaker encoding and speaker adaptation are topics of research in the field…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Manjil Karki , Pratik Shakya , Sandesh Acharya , Ravi Pandit , Dinesh Gothe

This paper proposes joint speaker feature learning methods for zero-shot adaptation of audio-visual multichannel speech separation and recognition systems. xVector and ECAPA-TDNN speaker encoders are connected using purpose-built fusion…

Text-to-speech (TTS) methods have shown promising results in voice cloning, but they require a large number of labeled text-speech pairs. Minimally-supervised speech synthesis decouples TTS by combining two types of discrete speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Yixin Tian , Yi Zhao , Ying Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) have enabled accurate imitation of reference speech in terms of both speaking style and speaker timbre. However, achieving disentangled control over these aspects from separate references…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Yoonhyung Lee , Hyunsin Park , Jinhwan Park , Jinkyu Lee

We introduce SPEAR-TTS, a multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) system that can be trained with minimal supervision. By combining two types of discrete speech representations, we cast TTS as a composition of two sequence-to-sequence tasks:…

Expressive voice conversion aims to transfer both speaker identity and expressive attributes from a target speech to a given source speech. In this work, we improve over a self-supervised, non-autoregressive framework with a conditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Seymanur Akti , Tuan Nam Nguyen , Alexander Waibel

This paper presents a method for end-to-end cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) which aims to preserve the target language's pronunciation regardless of the original speaker's language. The model used is based on a non-attentive Tacotron…